The aim of the kick off seminar is to introduce GIS and spatial analysis in language study via lectures and a workshop. Morning lectures are open to public. If you are interested in participating in the workshop please apply to alexandra.petrulevich@gmail.com or marc.tang@lingfil.uu.se before November 1.

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) are computerized information systems for collecting, storing, managing, and analyzing location-based data. The revolution in methodology that GIS has brought about has shown its clear effect in several fields of science, including linguistics. Internationally, language research using GIS methods is a growing field. Areas of application for GIS range from general linguistics and variational linguistics to runology and onomastics.